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By: Paul Kamara in Bo Defending champions of the Sierra Leone Premiere League Bo Rangers Football Club yesterday at their secretariat  in the southern region city of Bo opened a book of condolence in honor of their late Technical Director Eric Lansana who died in a gruesome road accident a week a ago.  The late T.D was said to be traveling from Freetown to Bo City to watch the finals between two community teams (Hangha Town and Njagboima Community) in the maiden edition of the President Bio Inter-Community Trophy when he met his sudden death. The brief ceremony which took place at the Clubhouse brought together Family members, Executive members from the club, Technical Team, Players, Supporters, Representatives from others football clubs, football stakeholders, journalists, sympathizers etc. Executive Chairman Babadi Kamara led the signing of the Book of Condolence. He had earlier described the demise of Eric as “a massive loss to the club.” Several tributes were paid by diffe...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Folk Sierra Leone songwriter, activist, poet, entrepreneur and performer “Fantacee Wiz” is adding another spice to her booming fame for keeping the true cultural melody of her country as rightly shown in her latest debut album title: “A Walk Home.” The album which was unveiled this midyear is the singer’s first ever and she did unveil the album on all popular social media streaming platforms with an unprecedented number of 20 tracks four other popular sensational Sierra Leonean singers including Drizilik, Markmuday, Joel and ringing singer King Kalie. For the production of the melodies in the “A Walk Home,” she had hired the services of legendary producers such as Treasure, DJ Rampage, Sound Boy, Lord Mo, Lanzo Matic, Jay Terror and Solo’s Beat.  Without waiting for the best to further emerge from her widely hailed maiden album which has been making the top charts on Audiofrica, YouTube, Boomplay, Audiomack and more, the singer will be unveiling anoth...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  On Sunday, Apex Multimedia, a growing Makeni based Multimedia company in collaboration with Kivas Pub on the Azzolini high-way unveiled a free film screening partnership with record attendance at the premises of Pivas. The deal according to Apex Multimedia’s Film Expert and Trainer Nick Sanderson was inspired by the desire of their management to reactivate the culture of movie screening on cinemas by way of increasing accessibility of film knowledge to the residents of Makeni and beyond which will help them become key players in the movie industry in the country eventually. He said: “Our company-(Apex Multimedia) believes education is a basic necessity and a right for everyone hence must be made accessible, which is why we’re offering free movie education to the people of Makeni and its surrounding for a start as part of fulfilling our cooperate social responsibility and we’re super proud of the management of Kivas Pub for partnering with us to revive the ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Mena Queens Football Club secured their first home win in the ongoing first-ever National Women’s League, as they dislodged visitors Koya Queens from Mile 38 at the Wusum Stadium in Makeni 2-1 over the weekend. It was gifted forward Sarah Turay who opened the scoring for the host in the first half and 10 minutes on her teammate Marian doubles the lead but Koya Queens forward Gbassay Kamara stamped a perfect finish before the quarter hour mark to end the match played on Saturday on high. The win is Mena Queens second in the ongoing maiden National Women’s in a row since they collected all three points away from Albitaya Queens FC of Kabala on October 29.

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Members of the Old Makeni Franciscan Association-(OMFA) across the country on Friday converged at the University of Makeni-(UNIMAK) Mass Communications building for the inauguration of the university’s first ever OMFA President in the person of Margai John Sebeh Conteh. Mr. Conteh who’s a final year student at the said University studying a  Mass Communication Honors Degree, inauguration came after he was officially elected unopposed as the UNIMAK Chapter of the Alumni Association of the Saint Francis Secondary School in Makeni in September this year. The historic event was also graced by UNIMAK Lecturers, Staff and Pupils of Saint Francis Secondary School, journalists among other guests invited from all walks of life. On the day, President Conteh expressed gratitude to the OMFA membership at home and abroad for trusting him to lead, he said his immediate ambition is to increase the membership of the newly established UNIMAK chapter and to make visibl...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  The Sierra Leone Police in the North East Region on Thursday were applauded by spectators for keeping their 2022 Inter-Divisional Sport Meeting 100% apolitical. Of all the four houses in the Police sport meet, the traditional Green and Red colors that are commonly been attributed to the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party-(SLPP) and the main oppositions All People’s Congress-(APC) parties were missing. Some of the spectators that witnessed the sports meetings said the decision by the Sierra Leone Police in the region was exemplary and urged heads of academic and other institutions to copy the Police model in a bid to end the  unhealthy contests that is normally mounted over the politicization of the green and red colors at most sport meetings. Meanwhile, the Athletics challenge organized to celebrate the 2022 Police week was competed by eight Police units in the Northeast region placed into four house colors consisting of two units each, was won by the...

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl Nearly 24 hours to the long awaited grand finals of the maiden President Bio Trophy underway in the southern regional district of Bo, this Saturday, the tournament’s organizers “Sons & Daughters of Bo” in collaboration with the local football federation-(BDFA) are set to gift the two finalists with a whooping sum of 120,000 Leones. According to Radio Newsong Sport Journalist David Lebbie, the winner of the competition’s final encounter to be played at the Bo Coronation field between Hanga Town Community and Njagboma Community Football Clubs is tipped to take home the sum of 70,000 Leones while the Runner-up will bag 50,000 Leones. Lebbie added that the sum of  10,000 Leones also awaits the team that will win the 3rd place encounter between Coronation Field and Kandeh Town Community Football Teams. With plans already sealed by the organizers for the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone His Excellency Retired Brigadier Julius Maada B...